pasacalle
The verdict
“pasacalle” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #72,185 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #72,185
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Música y danza en compás ternario y tempo lento, realizada mediante variaciones sobre bajo ostinato. Originarias del siglo XVII, tuvieron su auge en España e Italia durante el siglo XVIII de donde ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasacalle |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pasaˈkaʝe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pasacalle” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pasacalle is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pasaˈkaʝe]. Corpus data places it at rank #72,185 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pasacalle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is pasacalle, spelled P-A-S-A-C-A-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Música y danza en compás ternario y tempo lento, realizada mediante variaciones sobre bajo ostinato. Originarias del siglo XVII, tuvieron su auge en España e Italia durante el siglo XVIII de donde se extendieron por el resto de Europa, aunque solo como composiciones musicales. Se le confunde a veces con la chacona.
- 2Música y danza popular de ritmo muy vivo y compás binario. Su expresión más sencilla es la del tamborilero invitando a bailar por las calles.
- 3Paseo que hacen por las calles los días festivos las bandas, charangas u otros grupos musicales populares, interpretando ritmos alegres, entre ellos pasacalles.
- 4Cartel o pancarta que cruza por encima de la calle especialmente en las campañas políticas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #72,185 in Spanish
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Using “pasacalle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-S-A-C-A-L-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pasaˈkaʝe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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